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TT: Acquisition
For the past few years I've been writing at odd intervals about Arnold Friedman, a little-known American painter whom I once described in the Washington Post as "the greatest artist you've never heard ...

TT: Snapshot
The "Public Melody Number One" musical sequence from Raoul Walsh's 1937 film Artists and Models, staged by Vincente Minnelli and featuring Louis Armstrong and Martha Raye. Raye darkened her skin with makeup in order to appear on screen with Armstrong: (This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

TT: Almanac
"One is safe if one is still able to risk." Helen Frankenthaler (quoted in the New York Times, Apr. 27, 2003)

Bitter Lemons

Critiquing Your Friends
Just recently got called to task by some friends - at least they USED to be friends - who didn’t like the fact that I’d called out their play in a public forum. Got me thinking - and I’d love for the “real” critics out there (cuz I ain’t one and I know it) [...]

The Critical Condition

A new wrinkle in the “Corpus Christi” thing

The Rob Kozlowski Chicago Theater and Vintage Film Medicine Show

Real damn spectacle
On the Guardian blog, David Thomson criticizes a planned stage-spectacle version of Ben-Hur. ... Back in the good old days, however, a stage version of General Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur toured for well over 20 years...

On Chicago Theatre

August/Hedda
As seen in Playbill, The Weinstein company has acquired the film rights to Tracy Letts' Pulitzer, Tony, Jeff, Nobel, and American Dental Association winning play August: Osage County. Letts will write the script, no director or casting have been announced, and release is planned for 2011.

Plays and Playwrights

Back to Back Staged Readings